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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) — a psychiatric treatment that uses brief electrical currents applied to the head to trigger a seizure — would be banned for anyone younger than 25 years old in Utah under this bill. Licensed health care providers who administer ECT to a patient under 25 would face professional discipline for unprofessional conduct. The bill also removes electroshock therapy from the list of treatments in Utah's public mental health system that currently require special due process hearings before being given to children, since the treatment would instead be banned outright for that age group. Additionally, the bill makes several technical clarifications to existing procedures for committing minors to mental health facilities, including specifying which government attorney's office handles appeals of commitment decisions depending on who has legal custody of the child.